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contempt
English
Alternative forms
- c?tempt, cõtempt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin contemptus (“scorn”), from contemn? (“I scorn, despise”), from com- + temn? (“I despise”). Displaced native Old English forsewennes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?t?mpt/
- Rhymes: -?mpt
Noun
contempt (countable and uncountable, plural contempts)
- (uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
- The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
- (law) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:contempt
Antonyms
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Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- contempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- contempt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- contempt at OneLook Dictionary Search
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scandal
English
Etymology
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scand? (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.
Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skænd?l/
- Rhymes: -ænd?l
Noun
scandal (countable and uncountable, plural scandals)
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Well, yes, a couple of leaks are all very well, but it takes more than that... A big scandal perhaps. A political scandal. Or a scandal about something people really understand: Sex... or money.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
- (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
- Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
Derived terms
Descendants
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Translations
Verb
scandal (third-person singular simple present scandals, present participle scandalling or scandaling, simple past and past participle scandalled or scandaled)
- (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
- (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
- A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
Romanian
Etymology
From French scandale, from Latin scandalum.
Noun
scandal n (plural scandaluri)
- scandal
Declension
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